Israel Horovitz Quotes
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.
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The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
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The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.
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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
